Grandmother Quotes · Page 23

I spent the first three years of my life with my parents, grandmother and two aunties in a tiny council house in…

— Gavin Esler

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds…

— Rian Johnson

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

— Carol Burnett

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at…

— Mona Simpson

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

— T.I

“[From The Old Order ] The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . .”

— Katherine Anne Porter

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

— Jung Chang

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

— Anonymous

Grandmotherhood initiated me into a world of play, where all things became fresh, alive, and honest again through my grandchildren's eyes. Mostly,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted…

— Lois Wyse

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion,…

— Aerin Lauder

“These yanks into someone's personal past, that's the kind of history I like. Not wars, but who was your grandmother and what…

— Elizabeth Berg

I remember performing one-man reenactments of Miss Saigon' for my grandmother on her fireplace or dancing to Gwen Stefani in our hotel…

— Isa Briones

In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…

— George Gissing

I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is…

— Rose Leslie

“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her…

— Frederick Douglass

My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki…

— M. Night Shyamalan

“My grandmother, more than any other woman, was the standard bearer of Gardnerian beauty. Known as “The Black Witch” by our enemies,…

— Laurie Forest

“She walks towards Karen and Karen feels a cool wind against her skin, and the grandmother holds out both of her knobby…

— Margaret Atwood

At home - where my grandmother certainly had to deal with Donald more than my grandfather did because he was at work…

— Mary L. Trump

“Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without…

— Tove Jansson

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English…

— Alan Bradley

I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond…

— Sabrina Jeffries

I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.

— Gene Perret

“When your mind's too restless to think," Grandmother said, "move your hands.”

— Frederic S. Durbin

“She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.”

— James M. Cain

“Yummy food, unique attention, playfulness, or loving sternness—these features are often summoned to sweeten one’s memory of a grandmother.”

— Toni Morrison

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

— Carine Roitfeld

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew…

— Vesta Williams

“You'll marry the earl and carry on with the nephew on the side." "Grandmother!”

— Julia Quinn

Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother…

— Hamish Bowles

I had a good relationship with my grandmother. She used to really validate me.

— Simon Amstell

Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it…

— Margaret Whitlam

“Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker”

— Deborah L. Parker

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q.…

— Rick Bayless

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.

— Chris Ware

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

— John Calipari

One woman and one man might have been OK in your grandmother's day, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Not even…

— Groucho Marx

“My Grandmother says that love is like a bout of diarrhea, it needs neither an invitation nor privacy.”

— Dora Okeyo